Good morning and happy Monday. Sunshine’s sticking around, but don’t let it fool you — we’re topping out at a brisk 57 degrees this afternoon, with gusty winds to keep things interesting. Tomorrow’s looking like a copy-paste forecast, so soak up the rays while they last!
A high-profile Hell’s Kitchen hotel site with a history of reinvention — from LGBTQ+ landmark to scandal-plagued nightclub — is once again up for grabs. Read more…
A fundraiser has been launched to support the family of Jorge Sanchez, the 52-year-old construction worker who died after falling 60 feet into a shaft at the Gateway Tunnel project site in Hudson Yards on Thursday morning. Read more…
What We’ve Been Reading
* Stories that might be behind a paywall are marked with a đź’°
Early voting got off to a brisk start this weekend in NYC. (Eyewitness News)
An UWS tenant is holding out against development — and faces another winter without heat or hot water. (West Side Rag)
Join the debate on whether Queens has become the Manhattan that New Yorkers remember. (New York Post)
The pros and cons of the ballot proposals for affordable housing in NYC. (New York Timesđź’°)
The evolution of the roundabout for cars circles near to home at the corner of Hell’s Kitchen. (Jalopnik)
Freeze Frame
Thanks to Catie for this photo of volunteers giving the Hell’s Kitchen Community Cupboard a fresh coat of paint this weekend. The 24/7 free food share — located outside the Ryan Chelsea-Clinton Clinic on 10th Avenue — is a neighborhood mutual aid project where anyone can take what they need and leave what they can.
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Publisher & Editor Phil O’Brien is an entrepreneur and journalist. As an international photojournalist, he photographed Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Princess Diana and many others. He built a successful international sports photography agency, EMPICS, that was Getty Images’ major competitor in Europe when it sold. He founded a children’s charity in the UK that has helped young people through sport for over 15 years. Phil has lived in New York since 2012. He founded W42ST in 2014.